Deploying a VM with Multiple NICs in PowerCLI.

[admin]

I need to deploy VMs with a PowerCLI script. I'm running the  following command line in a loop to configure Multiple NICS and IP addresses on the deployed VM:   "Set-OSCustomizationNicMapping -IpMode UseStaticIp -IpAddress $ipaddr  -SubnetMask $subnet -DefaultGateway $gateway -Dns $dns1,$dns2"

but I do not  want to set a Default Gateway on each Netword card even if the -IPMode is  UseStaticIp.

As a current Workaround I run a netsh  command to delete the Gateway after starting the VM.

Does  anyone has a solution to Deploy a VM with multiple NICs with Static IP  addresses without configuring Default Gateway in PowerCLI?

Thanks for your Help,

[LucD]

It looks as if the requirement to include a default gateway is not justified in vSphere 5.*.

If you use the CreateCustomizationSpec method, you can easily skip entering the default gateway (and the subnetmask as well for that matter).

This sample code produces a CustomizationSpec with 3 NICs included and without a default gateway.

$specMgr = Get-View CustomizationSpecManager

$item = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationSpecItem

$item.Info = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationSpecInfo 
$item.Info.Name = "TestMultNICSDK" 
$item.Info.Description = "Testing with the SDK method"
 $item.Info.Type = "Windows"

$item.Spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationSpec 

$item.Spec.globalIPSettings = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationGlobalIPSettings

$item.Spec.identity = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationSysprep 

$item.Spec.identity.guiUnattended = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationGuiUnattended
$item.Spec.identity.guiUnattended.autoLogon = $false
$item.Spec.identity.guiUnattended.autoLogonCount = 0
$item.Spec.identity.guiUnattended.timeZone = 0

$item.Spec.identity.identification = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationIdentification
$item.Spec.identity.identification.JoinWorkgroup = "MYWG"

$item.Spec.identity.UserData = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationUserData
$item.Spec.identity.UserData.FullName = "My Fullname"
$item.Spec.identity.UserData.OrgName = "My Orgname"
$item.Spec.identity.UserData.ProductId = ""
$item.Spec.identity.UserData.ComputerName = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationVirtualMachineName

$item.Spec.Options = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationWinOptions
$item.Spec.Options.ChangeSID = $false
$item.Spec.Options.DeleteAccounts = $false

1..3 | %{
  $nic = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationAdapterMapping
  $nic.Adapter = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationIPSettings
  $nic.Adapter.ip = New-Object VMware.Vim.CustomizationFixedIp
  $nic.Adapter.ip.ipAddress = "192.168.1.$_"
   $nic.Adapter.subnetMask = "255.255.255.0"
  $item.Spec.nicSettingMap += $nic
}

$specMgr.CreateCustomizationSpec($item)

[StephVP]

Many thanks, it works.

I just added a $nic.Adapter.Gateway = $gateway instruction to set a default gateway on NIC #1.